Posts Tagged ‘Cockrell School of Engineering’

Nicholas Peppas Receives 2016 Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship

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Nicholas Peppas Receives 2016 Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship

Nicholas Peppas, Texas ChE professor and a world-renowned expert in biomaterials and drug delivery systems, has been awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) prestigious Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award for 2016.

The lectureship is the highest award given by BMES and recognizes one individual each year for his or her outstanding achievements … Read the rest »

Texas ChE Provides Key Leadership for New Smart Manufacturing Institute

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Texas ChE Provides Key Leadership for New Smart Manufacturing Institute

Texas ChE Professor Tom Edgar’s leadership in clean energy research recently helped secure $140 million for a new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute that will improve the efficiency of advanced manufacturing systems and deliver dramatic energy savings nationwide.

Edgar is a co-founder and the current treasurer of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC), … Read the rest »

Grad Student Wins Top Poster Award at International Metabolic Engineering 11 Conference

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Grad Student Wins Top Poster Award at International Metabolic Engineering 11 Conference

Kelly Markham, Texas ChE graduate student and member of the Alper research group, recently won a top poster award prize in the Student/ Young Investigator Poster Award Competition at the Metabolic Engineering 11 Conference in Kobe, Japan.

Markham’s poster, “Expanding the Substrate Range and Product Portfolio of Y. lipolytica through Metabolic Pathway Engineering and Synthetic … Read the rest »

Alumna Joan Brennecke To Join Faculty

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Alumna Joan Brennecke To Join Faculty

The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering is proud to announce alumna and renowned researcher Joan Brennecke (B.S. ‘84) will join our faculty as a professor beginning fall 2017.

Brennecke, a leading expert in energy and sustainability, was recruited with key support from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his new Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURIRead the rest »

Gates Foundation Grant Jump-Starts Innovative Malaria Research at UT Austin

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Van Truskett Named Distinguished Engineering Graduate

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Texas ChE Raises $28 Million to Complete Historic Campaign

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Texas ChE Raises $28 Million to Complete Historic Campaign

The John J. McKetta Jr. Department of Chemical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully completed its “Challenge for McKetta,” an ambitious fundraising campaign to advance the department and honor one of its beloved teachers and leaders.

The campaign raised $28 million from UT Austin engineering Read the rest »

Kate Baird Wins 2016 CSE Staff Excellence Award

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Kate Baird Wins 2016 CSE Staff Excellence Award

Graduate program coordinator Kate Baird was selected as a recipient of a 2016 Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award. Baird was one of six CSE staff members to receive the award and the only recipient from Texas ChE.

Staff Excellence Awards recognize selected non-teaching personnel who have distinguished themselves and who have contributed … Read the rest »

Alumna Caitlin Spofford Discusses Her Texas ChE Research Experience

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Buddie Mullins Named Best ChE Professor by SEC

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Buddie Mullins Named Best ChE Professor by SEC

Dr. Buddie Mullins has been named the 2016 Best ChE Professor by the Student Engineering Council. Mullins received the award at the Cockrell School of Engineering Distinguished Awards Banquet.

Engineering students nominated multiple professors from each Cockrell School department during this year’s E-Week in February. Mullins was then selected as Best ChE Professor after … Read the rest »